stigma

The Real Harms of Abusive, Stigmatizing Language in Addiction Treatment

Ironically, the conversation that spurred a peer-support specialist at a buprenorphine program to yell me out of the room was…

March 11, 2020

Screen Depictions of Parents Who Use Drugs Still Fuel Stigma and Punishment

Let’s play a game. I’m going to describe a scene, and you guess which movie it’s from. A thin, Black…

November 14, 2019

How Psychedelic Exceptionalism Harms Drug Users

Do you feel that some drugs are inherently worse for the user than others?” A man had approached the stage…

October 16, 2019